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>Even if there were local discrepancies at that time (can't believe anything you say)
Run everything I say through chatGPT if you want, my source is Medieval 2 Total War

>it doesn't change the fact that specie-based money is the superior choice and every single time inflation occurs, it becomes an unsustainable shit show.
He says, not addressing any of my arguments about why commodity currencies strangle the economy inevitably over a long enough timeline and have done so to every gold standard economy eventually

>The most productive period of human history - the 19th century - was a time of free international trade
Lmao, what? The 19th century was British domination because they started the industrial evolution and spammed the world with cheap manufactured shit just like China does today. Nobody else could keep up with them so they swallowed all the world's gold, silver and any other commodities the other side had

Germany was a poorfag region bleeding people throughout the century until it unified under Prussia and imposed tariffs to develop into an industrial superpower that eventually surpassed England despite not having any significant colonies

Ditto for Japan under Meiji